NORWAY PROG: POPOL ACE 'STOLEN FROM TIME' 1975 LP+ POSTER N.MINT RARE
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Popol Ace ?– Stolen From Time
Label:Polydor ?– 2480 332
Format:Vinyl, LP
Country:Germany
Released:1975
Genre:Rock
Style:Prog Rock
NEVER PLAYED VINYL. COVER AND POSTER NEAR MINT!
This is their 3rd album, released on French Polydor 2480 332 in 1975 (Printed in Germany). A great symphonic prog with close connections to Genesis in their best Peter Gabriel period. Comes in beautiful full laminated cover. Includes original poster (see photo).
Polydor was so impressed with Popol Vuh's two first albums and the success at home in Norway that they finally decided to launch the band internationally. To avoid any trouble with the German band, the name was changed to Popol Ace. Everybody at Polydor and the band was reportedly overwhelmed about how good the demos with the new material sounded, so they went off to several famous studios in Europe to record the album. "Stolen from Time" was musically their best, most focused and atmospheric album. It has an accomplished and polished symphonic progressive rock sound that lasts all the way from the opening chords of "Bury Me Dead" and to the fading harmonies of the closer "Suicide". The synths were used on a wider scale than before, and were also better integrated in the sound. Knutsen and Andreassen wrote what I personally consider to be next to "Hunchback" their three best contributions with the band: "Jester", "Sleepwalker" and the earlier mentioned "Bury Me Dead". Schulze wrote all the other highlights on the album: the quirky heavyprog of "Mr. Bigalow", the superb "Today Another Day", the pretty ballads "Sweet Tune" and "I Can See Tears" and the lyrically absurd "Suicide". Do NOT listen to the latter one if you ever have considered suicide! Teigen delivered the only modest and simple song on the album in the lullabye-like "Soft Shoe Dancer". As time would show, "Stolen from Time" did unfortunately not give the band the international breakthrough they deserved, but musically it remains one of the best and most solid symphonic progressive rock albums from Norway. (vintageprog.com)
A1
Bury Me Dead
5:50
A2
Today Another Day
5:45
A3
Jester
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Richard Raux
3:58
A4
Soft Shoe Dancer
Ondes Martenot – Sylvette Allart
4:37
A5
Mr. Bigalow
4:07
B1
Sweet Tune
Ondes Martenot – Sylvette Allart
5:00
B2
Sleepwalker
Backing Vocals – Inger-Lise Rypdal*
Ondes Martenot – Sylvette Allart
4:50
B3
I Can See Tears
6:25
B4
Suicide
Backing Vocals – Inger-Lise Rypdal*
Effects [Synthesized] – Arne Schulze
8:19
- Bass, Bass [Fuzz], Backing Vocals – Terje Methi
- Drums, Percussion – Thor Andreassen
- Engineer – Vic Smith*
- Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [12-string] – Arne Schulze
- Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano [Grand], Electric Piano, Clavinet, Organ [Hammond C3], Harpsichord, Mellotron, Synthesizer [Mini Moog], Backing Vocals – Pete Knutsen
- Producer – Popol Ace, Vic Smith*
- Vocals, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals – Jahn Teigen
Recorded at
Honky Chateau, France September 1975
Advision Studios, London/England October 1975
Basing Stree Studios, London/England October 1975
Talent Studios, Oslo/Norway November 1975
VINYL - NEAR MINT UNPLAYED
COVER - NEAR MINT
LABELS - NEAR MINT
POSTER - NEAR MINT (printed both sides)
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